Chapter 4 of 'The Official Ubuntu Book'

Benjamin Mako Hill, Jono Bacon, Corey Burger, Jonathan Jesse and Ivan Krstic

The Official Ubuntu Book covers the latest version of Ubuntu -- Ubuntu 6.06LTS -- with input from the leading Ubuntu community members. Learn about Ubuntu Server installation and basic administration with advanced installer features like LVM and RAID, as well as the Kubuntu desktop and standard desktop applications.

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Chapter 4 -- Advanced Usage and Managing Ubuntu -- of The Official Ubuntu Book covers administrative tasks like installing WINE with Synaptic, adding/removing open source/proprietary apps to the desktop, configuring printers and more.

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Chapter 4, "Advanced Usage and Managing Ubuntu," is excerpted from The Official Ubuntu Book by Benjamin Mako Hill, Jono Bacon, Corey Burger, Jonathan Jesse and Ivan Krstic, published in August, 2006, by Prentice Hall Professional (ISBN: 0132435942). Copyright © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission by Pearson Education.

This was first published in August 2006

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